Become a partner now! Policymakers around the world have long grappled with interrelated threats of poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, and fragility. They now find themselves navigating the uncharted waters of the COVID-19 pandemic, facing challenging policy choices. The crisis could drive up extreme global poverty and its derailing the progress towards the Sustainable …
Scientists call for urgent, targeted, action to avoid reversing the development gains of recent decades New relationship between people and nature is needed as climate change and biodiversity loss threaten progress New York, 11 September—Achieving human well-being and eradicating poverty for all of the Earth’s people—expected to number eight and a half billion by 2030—is …
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UNDP is committed to transparency and accountability and places great value in learning from its work in order to continue improving its performance. The previous Handbooks on Monitoring and Evaluation have served the organization well for more than a decade with over 1 million downloads. However, changes globally and across UNDP including the adoption of …
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Preventing child labour in development cooperation – Tools and strategies for monitoring and evaluating child labour in programmes and projects of international development cooperation. A Handbook composed by a SLE-Team, commissioned by the FAO. Agriculture is the single sector that uses the most child labor, according to the ‘Handbook for Monitoring and Evaluation of Child …
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IEG’s Caroline Heider explains how evaluation influences change, and why this theory of change matters. To optimize value-for-money, it is essential to understand how evaluation influences change. Source: Influencing Change through Evaluation: What is the Theory of Change? | Independent Evaluation Group
UN Women, Claremont Graduate University and IOCE, under the EvalPartners initiative, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation and in partnership with UNEG, OECD/DAC EvalNet, ALNAP, UNICEF, ReLAC, IPEN and EvalMENA, are pleased to announce the opening of the registration for the first 2016 cohort of the introductory e-Learning programme on Development Evaluation, which starts on 19 January 2016. In the …
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IFAD invited us to Rome for a technical seminar jointly organized by the evaluation offices of CGIAR, FAO, IFAD and WFP. The documentation is ready at http://www.ifad.org/evaluation/events/2015/sdg2/index.htm There is also a Storify on https://storify.com/ifadnews/technical-seminar-on-enhancing-the-evaluability-of
Karsten Weitzenegger Consulting uses Wikiprogress, This is a global platform for you to gather, share and create information about measuring the progress of society. www.wikiprogress.org Wikiprogress is a global platform for sharing information in order to evaluate social, environmental and economic progress. It is open to all members and communities for contribution – students and …
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